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WSJ: Committee to Save the Euro

By Anonymous

An interesting back story in the WSJ: On the Secret Committee to Save the Euro, a Dangerous Divide

Two months after Lehman Brothers collapsed in the fall of 2008, a small group of European leaders set up a secret task force ... Its mission: Devise a plan to head off a default by a country in the 16-nation euro zone.

And a year later - when Greece was near default - the committee hadn't agreed on a strategy. And that lead to the frantic last minute scramble to piece together a bailout for Greece - with Germany calling the shots.

Full post as published by Calculated Risk on September 25, 2010 (boomark / email).